I've lost iPhoto following upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion on my 2008 Macbook

Unfortunately I'm a student and so all my discs are in the box which are in storage at my grandmother's house.

Before I travel across the country and dig through a garage full of things, I need to know it'll work. The system restore discs that came with my Mac were the OSX 10.4 Leopard ones, from 2008. I don't know if that'll have the right version of iPhoto for OS Lion, or if it'll work with the new operating system. Do you know that, or if there's anywhere that I can find it out?

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I'd love to upgrade to Mavericks; I have it on my iMac and I have the newest iPhoto on there (which i didn't have to pay for). Unfortunately, I have the old white plastic Macbook and when I tried installing Mavericks, even though i've upgraded the hardware, it's "not compatible" and won't let me install.

I needed to upgrade for a software that I use, but apparently my book only supports up to Lion (not even Mountain Lion). I'll be getting a new book next autumn, so I guess I'll just have to wait until then. I'm just confused as to why the version of iPhoto I had was removed upon upgrading in the first place.

Okay, fair enough. So I was running an old version of iPhoto that's incompatible with Lion and it was moved. which means that even if I used my System Restore disc, that version of iPhoto won't be compatible. The version available in the App Store is also not compatible because it's new, meaning I'm in a weird software limbo!

Does this mean there's no way of getting a version of iPhoto compatible with my book? Because that seems really weird :/

I had the '09 versions, my friend put them on when he upgraded me to Snow Leopard back around 2010.

I've just had a look on Amazon, and apparently iLife '09 is either £36 or £70. Given I had it to begin with, I'm reluctant to pay such a large amount of money to have it again after I've just had to pay to upgrade to an operating system that I already owned on another computer.

The weirdest bit is that iLife includes Garageband and iMovie, right? I still have Garageband and iMovie '09, and I've just checked and they still work. Just no iPhoto. I've checked my apps folder and tried spotlight. Confused.

Thanks, I'll give that a go!

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